On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Mike A. Harris<mharris at mharris.ca> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Blizzard wrote: > > (followup on original post from previous reply) > >> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most >> part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes >> that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > That is definitely not a firefox bug. Okay. But there is some kind of issue between Firefox 3.5 and Xorg. I reverted back to Firefox 3.0.11 and it works fine. >> It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can >> replicate it as many times as I want by going to... >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter >> ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. > > I've just visited that page and clicked on both links and it works fine. > I've even disabled all of my security/privacy extensions on that page > and it still works fine. If the page is causing your system to crash, > I'd start examining /var/log/messages and your X server log for kernel > panics or Oops et al. Interesting. I'll see what I can find in /var/log/messages and share anything that might point to the problem. Thanks for writing. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3